I was in a similar situation. I have a Raspi 2b. I was running Weewx 3.5 with some custom services and a modified driver. I made the move to 4.1 using python 2 but haven't made the jump to upgrade the OS and switch to python 3 yet.
Getting to 4.x was pretty painless. I prepped by getting a copy of my system running on a VM and upgrading it. Once I figured out what all I needed to upgrade I did it on the real system. I had a couple of things to fix after the upgrade. Remodify my custom driver Date and time formatting was now overridden in weewex.conf I needed a new version the forecast extension Im probably going to use a new SD card and do clean install with the latest os and python 3 so l can fall back to the old one if I run into trouble. Good luck. On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 4:00 AM Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Forum, > > I've been running Weewx on a RPi 1B since 2013 and with Weewx 4 now on > Python3 and Wheezy no longer supported I really should bite the bullet and > migrate my platform. > Currently it's > Weewx 3.9.1 with some custom reports, alarms, exfoliation, Steel series > SQLite > RPi 1B (512MB RAM) on wheezy (Debian 7) > > My plan would be to move home/weewx across to the new platform and then to > upgrade to Weewx 4.x, does that sound viable? > > Regarding the hardware, I could get a RPi4 but I've got quite attached to > the little RPI 1B it's done me well and been stable. I haven't quite > managed 365 days without a reboot but we got close a couple of times. > > I've done a very basic test with a spare RPI 1B standalone not connected > to the weather station. Installed Buster moved home/weewx across, installed > some misssing python libraries and it came up, so it might be up to it. > > Has anyone got any experience of running weewx 4 on RPi 1B with Buster? > > Thanks in advance. > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7948401e-6b35-42d1-bffe-749a18dfcd9a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7948401e-6b35-42d1-bffe-749a18dfcd9a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAA1SM23aW_CEhwP0W-JZgqNUrnK_7WHuuQ8fbQUZsXe6W9tSpw%40mail.gmail.com.
